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Monday, 18 May 2015

Concept of Time and 'Meraj'

We know Time and Space
are considered as a twin and interdependent phenomenon. Time may be defined as
duration to cover a distance between two points in space. Simply speaking, if a
person moves from point A to point B, the duration required for reaching from
point A to point B is called Time to reach from A to B. In other words, if
space between A and B is expanded, the time to reach from A to B will be
expanded; and if the space between A and B is contracted/condensed, time to
reach from A to B will be shortened. It means same event (in this case moving
from A to B) will require more (expanded) time to happen, if space is expanded;
it means Time will get slower. Similarly event will require lesser time to happen, if
space is condensed/ contracted; it means Time will get faster.

In the article “Time and Space-existence in pairs”, and
in “Time Travel”,and in other articles on philosophy of Time
and Space on this blog site, we have seen that space and time start expanding
more as we move from 1st sky to upper skies; OR Space and Time start
contracting more as we move from seventh sky to 1st sky. In other words, Space and Time are the most
contracted on the 1st sky; and Space and Time are the most expanded
on the 7th sky. That is why thequickestevents happen on the 1st
sky and the slowest events happen on the 7th sky.As Space and Time gradually start expanding
as we move from the 1st sky to upper skies, it means Space and Time
on the 1st sky become more contracted as compared to Space and Time
on the upper skies, as we move from the 1st sky to the upper skies.
In other words, this gradual contraction of Time and Space on first sky results
in gradually quicker happening of events on the earth (which is placed in the 1st
sky) as we move from 1st sky to upper skies.This gradual contraction of Time and Space on the earth reaches to such
an extent that events happening in 211.22 days on earth would be seen
happening so only in one second
on seventh sky.Similarly events happening
in 211.22 days on earth would start taking gradually more than one second, as we move down from
the 7th sky to the lower skies. It means events on earth happen in
the quickest way; and events on the 7th sky happen in the slowest
manner.

This concept of quickness
and slowness of Time may be better understood through the following example:

Suppose we are passing
through a boring day. We see that we have passed through many events like, for
instance, sleeping, taking bath, drinking tea, helping our children in their
home work, and shopping etc. But when we look at watch, we find that, after
passing through all those events, only three hours have passed. In a boring
day, many events happen in lesser time. We say that time is passing very slowly
in that boring day. Similarly Time passes so slowly on the seventh sky that
events happening in 211.22 days on the earth (which would be obviously so many
events) pass only in one second on the 7th sky. In other words, one
unit of Time and Space i.e. equal to one second, is expanded to such an extent
on the 7th sky that events happening in 211.22 days on the earth
would happen in that unit of Time and Space i.e. equal to one second on the 7th
sky. For instance, one unit of Time and Space is one inch long and this unit is
equal to one second. On earth one event takes place in this one second one inch
long unit. Suppose, this 1 second unit which is 1 inch long on earth is
expanded to 4 inches in length on an upper sky. It would mean four events
happening on earth (each event taking 1 second) would be seen happening in 1
second on that upper sky.

1sec-
1inch- 1event

1 sec- 4 inches- 4
events

This concept of Time
and Space implies that man can travel into future. If events happening in
211.22 days on earth can be seen happening in one second on the 7th
sky, it means we can see, by spending 1 second on the 7th sky, future
events happening in 211.22 future days on earth.

Our Nabi (saww) has
practically gone through such future journey during ‘Journey of Meraj’. During ‘meraj’, our Nabi (Saww) witnessed many
events including Paradise and the Hell, which would take thousands of future
years to take place according to earthly Time.

The question arises
how our Nabi (saww) was able to undertake that travel to future time, whereas
we do not have such technology even today. He answer is that our Nabi (saww) undertook
that future travel with the help of future technology. The transport which was
used during ‘meraj’ and which is called ‘burraq’
was a future technology which was brought by Gabriel (a.s) to our Nabi (saww).
We have already seen in the article ‘Time
Travel’ that travel from future to present earthly time is possible; though
travel from future to past of the present earthly time is not possible.‘Burraq’was carried from future by Gabriel (a.s) to our Nabi (saww) to undertake
journey to the future time.